Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied online. The process took a week – interviewed at KLA-Tencor in March 2013.

Interview Details

The HR sent an e-mail with details on position. The hiring manager called me for the interview on phone. The call was about half an hour with details focussed on how work at current company was organized.

Interview Questions

Can you explain in detail, on what your work time is organized, with split in time spent for various work activities. He wanted specific answers as to how this would be for the entire year.Answer Question

Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA

Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA

Application Details

The process took a day – interviewed at KLA-Tencor in December 2010.

Interview Details

my background was in EE. Interviewed for software engr. one of the interviewer said position for software engr and looked at my resume few times and left. supposed to meet with 6 people but had interview with only 4.

Software Engineer Interview

Anonymous Employee

Anonymous Employee

Application Details

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days – interviewed at KLA-Tencor.

Interview Details

It started as a phone-interview session.Started with C++: the routine testing on fundamentals of C++: vtable, rule of three.Design Patterns: Singleton. Can you code it in C++? If yes, then what about destructors?Data Structures: PhoneBook problem.Next 1:1 round went in programming related to Linked Lists, Merging Sorted arrays.Next 1:1 round: Open question in Large Data duplication: issues,scenarios,solutions.Group Interview round: Basics of C: different types of pointers: near,far,huge?How about handling large numbers? How to add/subtract them?Multi-dimensional arrays?

Written test consisted of questions which were outside B.Tech scope . The expectation of interviewers is unnecessarily too high as KLA Tencor has bad training facility . Some of the interview questions are size of virtual destructor, constructor , 4 byte pairing , virtual mapping in functions etc, Memory allocation , deallocation of objects and variables, recognition of error type (Stack Overflow, Linker Error, Compile Time error) etc. Some of the cons for this company are :- 14 working hours/day , less increment in salary, worst interview process and unfair selection .

Glassdoor has 36 interview reports and interview questions from people who interviewed for Software Engineer jobs at KLA-Tencor. Interview reviews are posted anonymously by KLA-Tencor interview candidates and employees.